i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works
just an immediate list of solutions to like half the problems in my life appearing out of the ether
if i had more agency i'd ask myself about 100x but i'm too scared to see what it produces
@nickcammarata "how would someone much much better than me approach this?" also annoyingly OP
@nickcammarata classic
@nickcammarata Sometimes I do something similar where I think, if I was a butler/assistant/etc for my future self, what stuff would I be doing to make my client’s life easier?
@nickcammarata Mine is "would i love this idea if i felt it had a 100% chance of success" which usually gets past self-doubt/undercommitment
@nickcammarata We all have insane agency. You could to Japan and operate a ski lift tomorrow. Or become a world-class climber. Or invent a sport from scratch. Or write a cooking book. Or... It's frustrating to me how little I do with all the potential-agency I have.
@nickcammarata humans just need the proper prompting, too
@nickcammarata I hate this because it subverts every excuse “But what if I’m depressed?” am I treating the depression properly? what haven’t I tried? if I had 10x more agency wouldn’t I be assembling the metaphorical fucking avengers between professionals, lifestyle, and medication(s)?
@nickcammarata this is like exercising "universal mind" it's like universal compute, but instead of being able to simulate any machine, it can simulate any mind basically you simulate a 10x agency mind
@nickcammarata turns out this is a killer question to ask chatGPT once it has annual reflections + notes as context
@nickcammarata i am also in the replies asking for any examples that would feel good to share
@nickcammarata Can you share an example where this thinking led you to take a certain action?
@nickcammarata examples of answers that were useful to you?
@nickcammarata How do you imagine someone with 10x agency? Someone with more resources? Knowledge? Like how do you conceptualise this person?
@nickcammarata My answer to that question is always: “make video content”. There is so much leverage in video that most millennials/old gen Z’s are not capturing
@nickcammarata Great prompt
@nickcammarata ~potentiality~
@nickcammarata our own potential haunts us because consciousness itself has no upper limit - it's the ultimate bootstrapping mechanism. each time you climb one mountain you see ten more peaks, and the vertigo of infinite possibility sets in. terrifying yet beautiful, no?
@nickcammarata I saw someone once say “the easiest way to stop procrastinating is to pretend you’re an NPC who has no choice” and it’s dumb as all hell but also works for me
@nickcammarata in nathaniel branden’s “6 pillars of self esteem”, this is part of his rec’d sentence completion exercises. a good tool to peer into your subconscious “if i have 5% more energy today” “if i bring 5% more awareness to my important relationships” “if i take more responsibility for
@nickcammarata absolute cheatcode for life. i go on daily walks with my ideal self, chatting about what to do next.
@nickcammarata examples pls? i don’t understand how this helps you to come up with solutions
@nickcammarata who wrote that that tweet about always having access to your optimal policy?
@nickcammarata It sounds dumb, but even something as simple as asking yourself "What is the right thing to do here?" works because it's one of those zero-to-one problems. The issue was that you were not thinking about anything _at all_ before and now you're, at the very least, thinking.
@nickcammarata Dude why did you have to unblock me I was comfy in my rut!
@nickcammarata “Let’s try thinking step by step”
@nickcammarata This but for 10x the energy
@nickcammarata "Just do it" is another one. Not even a buddhist lama meditating for 25 years in a frozen cave could dream up a more potent mantra. Pure magic.
@nickcammarata Could you expand on what it means to have more agency?
@nickcammarata ‘should’ is such an interesting word. In an ideal world should shouldn’t exist.